On 2017-07-07 16:52 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 07/07/17 à 16:39, Sven Joachim a écrit : >> In fact, various packages have been demoted from Priority >> standard or important to optional in recent years. This includes the >> venerable "ed" text editor for instance, and also any package providing >> /usr/bin/mail. Apparently the reason is that they pull in an MTA which >> is also no longer included by default. Which seems sensible to me BTW. > > A small relaying only MTA could be installed by default, eg ssmtp.
Good luck changing the default MTA in Debian, that has been under discussion on debian-devel for at least 18 years[1]. Besides, maintainers cannot even agree which MTA they prefer to pull in if one is needed by their packages: ,---- | $ grep-dctrl -FDepends mail-transport-agent -n -sDepends /var/lib/apt/lists/*unstable*Packages | sed -e 's/, /\n/g' | grep mail-transport-agent | sort -u | default-mta | exim4 | mail-transport-agent | default-mta | mail-transport-agent | exim | mail-transport-agent | exim4 | mail-transport-agent | exim4 | postfix | mail-transport-agent | exim4 | postfix | sendmail | mail-transport-agent | exim4-daemon-light | mail-transport-agent | mutt | mailx | mail-transport-agent | postfix | exim4 | mail-transport-agent | postfix | mail-transport-agent | sendmail | mail-transport-agent | sendmail-bin | mail-transport-agent `---- Cheers, Sven 1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/06/thrd5.html#01981